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Old 02-19-2014, 03:21 AM
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Many doctors will use the term dystonia but the spasms we often have w/TOS is not true dystonia. Dystonia/Torticollis is a movement disorder and generally results in a tilt to one side and possibly uncontrollable jerks. This is treated often with ultrasound guided Botox to specific muscles. I don't know if the scalenes are often (or ever) implicated with dystonia, so scalenectomy is not a treatment for it.
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